US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 18 for "Low power and area clock monitoring circuit using ring delay arrangement for clock signal having phase-to-phase variation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,785, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low power and area clock monitoring circuit using ring delay arrangement for clock signal having phase-to-phase variation" was invented by Kedar Rajpathak (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tezaswi Raja (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and method of operating a circuit for monitoring a clock signal having phase-to-phase variation is disclosed. The method comprises adding a fixed number of bits to a pulse count of a reference phase instance for a high or low phase to yield a modified added pulse count when detecting a clock slow abnormalit...